Weather-strip.



. No. 834,528. PATENTED 001". so, 1906.

' s. w. HORST.

. WEATHER s APPLICATION FILED TRIP! Aria. 2. 1906, v

JNI/ N I I Q v a K ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT oFFIon SAMUEL W. HORST, OF PALMYRA, PEN N SYLVANIA. A'SSIG NOR OF ONE- HALF TOSTOGDELL S. STAPLES, OF WHITE HAVEN, PENNSYLVANIA.

WEATHER-STRIP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented 30, 1 m6.

Application filed April 2, 1906. Serial No. 309.4 40.

To all whom it may concern/.-

=Be it known that I, SAMUEL W. HORST, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Palmyra, in the county of Lebanon and Stateof Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Weather-Strip, of which. the following is a specification.

This invention relates to weather-strips,

when the door is open and will be automatically thrown down into engagement with the ,fioorwhen the door is closed, thereby to avoid interfering with the convenient openingand closing of the door.

"A still further object of the invention is to adapt the device for application to doors which are hinged at either edge thereof without requiring any rearrangement. of the device.

With these and other objects in view the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details may be made within the scope of the claims without departing from the spiritor sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

' In the drawings, Fi ure 1 is a fragmentary perspective view of t e lower portion of a door equipped with the weather-strip of the present invention, the door being partially open. Fig. 2 is'an end view of the device attached to a door in the open position of the latter. Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a detail pers ective'view of the weather-strip upon a reuced scale. Fig. 5 is a rear elevation thereof. Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view of the trip for moving the weather-strip downward into engagement with the floor. Fig. 7 is a horizontal section through one end of the strip shown in Fig. 4.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the figures ofthe drawings.

The present device includes asbody 1,,pref- 1 erably a wooden strip of suitable proportions and approximating in length the width of the door to which it is a 'plled. By preference the upper face of the body is beveled so as to I give the body a triangular cross-sectional j shape for the purpose of reducing the weight I and the bulk thereof. This body is designed to be rigidly connected to a door, such as shown at 2, adjacent the lower edge thereof, by means of fastenings 3, set through open- Iiongp 4, provided transversely through the Beneath the body there is a wooden strip 5, which has its rear edge located about midway between the front and rear edges'of the body 1, while its front beveled edge portion projects a suitable distance in front of the body. Thisstrip is loosely connected to the under side of the body, for instance, by suitable hinges 6 in order that the strip may a support. Upon reference to Fig. 5 ofthe drawings it will be seen that a spring-rod 7 extends longitudinally across the rear edge of the strip 5, with one end connected to thebotsuitably connectedto the back of the strip :5, as at 9, (shown in Fig. 7,) preferably by having the extremity of the rod bent into a hook embracing the adjacent end of the strip 5, with its pointed extremity driven into the strip. The tendency of the spring-rod is to hold the strip 5 in a substantially horizontal position against the other side of the body 1 and is capable of yielding to permit of the part 5 being swung down upon its hinge connectionwith 1 packing-strips 10 and 11, of rubber or other suitable material, are secured with their free edge portions projecting, respectively, in front and rear of the member 5.

Upon one end of the member 5 there is a trip member 12 in the nature of a substanend of the member and having an angular shank 13 embracing the adjacent end of the member and secured thereto by means of fastenings 14 and 15. By preference the trip is applied to that end of the member 5 which has the spring-rod 7 connected thereto in order that the shank of the'trip may cover and swing in a verticaldirection upon the b odyas the body. To the under side of the member tially horizontal plate projecting beyond the tom of the body, as at 8, and its other end hold in place the hook-terminal 9 of the spring.

In practice the device is secured to a door so as to have the strips 10 and 11 in substantially the same horizontal plane with the lower edge of the door, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 2 of the drawings, whereby the weather-strip is above the floor and does not.

interfere with the convenient opening and closing of the door. When the door is closed, the trip 12 strikes the adjacent stop-strip 16 of the door-frame, which is cut away, as at 17 to accommodate the trip and is faced with a wear-plate 18, against which the trip is de signed to engage. This wear-plate is set at an angle to the vertical, so as to force the trip downwardly, and consequently swing the weather-strip downwardly into the position shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, with the packing-strip 10 pressed against the floor or door-sill and the packing-strip 11 pressed against the adjacent face of the door, thereby effectually producing weather-tight joints between the weather-strip and the floor and between the weather-strip and the door. When the door is opened, the spring 7 automatically swings the device upwardly into the position shown in Fig. 2, when the trip 12 disengages the stop-strip 16.

Should the door be hinged opposite to that shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, the trip 12 is removed and fitted to the other end of the member 5, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 4 of the drawings, whereby the device is capable of being accommodated to doors swung from either edge without requiring dismantling or material alteration in the device. The advantage of having the trip project beyond an end of the weather-strip is that the stop-strip of the door-frame may be utilized for engagement by the trip, thereby obviating the employment of a sto device applied to the strip 16, which would form an objectionable projection extending into the doorway. Moreover, the trip is beveled at its front and rear in order that it may be used upon either end of the device.

Havin thus described the invention, what is claimed is 1. A weather-strip comprising an attaching-body, a weather-strip member hinged to the body, a spring-rod having one end connected to the body and its other end embracing and secured to the adjacent end of the swinging weather-strip member, and a trip having an angular shank embracing one end of the swinging member and covering that end of the spring which is secured to said swinging member.

2. A weather-strip comprising an attaching-body, a weather-strip member hinged to and extending beyond said body, a spring socured at opposite ends to the body and weather-strip member respectively, said spring serving to hold said member normally in a horizontal position, a trip having an angular shank embracing one end of the swinging weather-strip member and retaining the spring in engagement with said member, packing-strips secured to said member and extending beyond the edges thereof, and means adapted to be connected to' the stopstrip of the door-frame for contacting with. and automatically deflecting the trip to tilt the weather-strip member. Pi.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL W. HORST.

Witnesses: L

J. A. SHRIVER, JACOB W. MARK. 

